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The glass castle : a memoir

Walls, Jeannette. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781439156964 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 1439156964 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9781416550600 (ebook)
  • ISBN: 1416550607 (ebook)
  • Physical Description: print
    288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: Scribner hardcover ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, c2009.

Content descriptions

Summary, etc.: This story is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a penetrating look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who hated anything to do with domesticity. The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.

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Available copies

  • 6 of 7 copies available at Bibliomation.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 7 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton B WALLS Wal (Text) 33160142917783 Adult Biography On holds shelf -
Milford Public Library 920 WALLS JEANNETTE (Text) 34013143673724 Adult Biography Available -
Milford Public Library 920 WALLS JEANNETTE (Text) 34013143673732 Adult Biography Available -
New Milford Public Library B WALLS (Text) 34021129367872 Adult Biography Available -
North Branch - Bridgeport B WALLS (Text) 34000075938852 Adult Biography Available -
Rowayton Library 362.82 WAL (Text) 33625000342036 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Thomaston Public Library B WALLS (Text) 34020133491447 Adult Biography Available -

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